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Internet at WELCOME Thank you for purchasing a Globalsat USB GPS receiver! Globalsat USB GPS receivers allow for real-time street navigation by using your laptop for graphical plotting and positioning of your route. Simply load the GPS driver, plug the GPS receiver into your computer’s USB port and install your own personal mapping software to begin to view...
2. INSTALLING THE USB DRIVER TO YOUR LAPTOP 1. Place the product CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. 2. Auto-run should detect the CD bring up the following screen below. 3. Click on the button titled from the main screen as shown above. “WINDOWS USB Driver”...
2. Your USB GPS be plugged into your USB port at this time. MUST 3. Using Window’s Control Panel, select System > Hardware > Device Manager 4. Then look under the heading of: PORTS (Com & LPT) 5. There should be a listing for: Prolific Serial-to-USB Comm Port (COM x) (“x”...
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LED Status indicator on the USB GPS” LED OFF: GPS receiver is off (no power). LED ON (solid): No fix, searching for GPS signals. LED FLASHING: Position fix established and GPS signals are being received. Always select an area in the vehicle where the GPS unit will be secure and not obstruct normal driving, visibility and safety, but still maintaining a “view to the sky”...
Will the USB GPS work with other Street Mapping software? Globalsat USB GPS receivers provides standard NMEA data for mapping software to use and convert to coordinates and should work well with most any NMEA compliant software on the market today.
COM port was configured properly, the GPS receiver is on and receiving the streaming GPS data. This can be verified by opening your mapping software program. In addition, the Globalsat USB GPS has a built-in LED status indicator that shows the following: LED OFF: GPS receiver is off (no power).
9. SAFETY AND LEGAL NOTICES Please read this section carefully before using the GPS receiver Globalsat Technology Corporation / USGlobalsat, Inc. will not accept any responsibility whatsoever for accidents resulting from failure to observe common sense precautions. Your personal judgment, traffic regulations, and common sense must always take precedence over...
Except as provided herein, Globalsat/USGlobalsat makes no express warranties’, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability or fitness for particular use, or non-infringement. You acknowledge that your use of the product or service is at your sole risk and you agree that the information provided are without warranty of any kind by Globalsat/USGlobalsat.
12. BR-355S4 SPECIFICATIONS Electrical Characteristics (Receiver) GPS Chipset SiRF STAR IV GSD4e Frequency L1, 1575.42 MHZ C/A Code 1.023 MHz chip rate Channels Sensitivity -163dBm Accuracy Position Horizontal <2.5m 2D RMS SBAS Enable Velocity 0.1m/sec 95% (SA off) WAAS Enabled for North America product s (USGlobalSat, Inc) Datum Datum WGS-84...
13. BU-353S4 / BR-355S4 Product Pin Description BU-355S4 PIN Number(s) Name Type Description Main power supply to the BU-5353. USB IF to transmits channel for outputting USB IF navigation and measurement data to user’s navigation software or user written software.
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BR-355S4 PIN Number(s) Name Type Description Ground. Main power supply to the BR-355. Reverse PIN This is the main receive channel for receiving software commands to the engine board from SiRFdemo software or from user written software. This is the main transmits channel for outputting navigation and measurement data to user’s navigation software or user written software.
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